https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2250ab6a13dd269b738cfd391851933fca75533d
commit: 2250ab6a13dd269b738cfd391851933fca75533d
branch: main
author: Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org>
committer: hugovk <1324225+hug...@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2025-03-14T13:13:47+02:00
summary:

GH-125174 Revert: Make immortality "sticky" (GH-131184)" (#131230)

Revert "GH-125174: Make immortality "sticky" (GH-131184)"

This reverts commit 3a91ee97245639c7c4f8852418157d3fc0ec1a82.

files:
M Include/refcount.h
M Lib/test/test_bigmem.py

diff --git a/Include/refcount.h b/Include/refcount.h
index b8ea5c6281408f..ba14bc6965ce3e 100644
--- a/Include/refcount.h
+++ b/Include/refcount.h
@@ -41,10 +41,6 @@ having all the lower 32 bits set, which will avoid the 
reference count to go
 beyond the refcount limit. Immortality checks for reference count decreases 
will
 be done by checking the bit sign flag in the lower 32 bits.
 
-To ensure that once an object becomes immortal, it remains immortal, the 
threshold
-for omitting increfs is much higher than for omitting decrefs. Consequently, 
once
-the refcount for an object exceeds _Py_IMMORTAL_MINIMUM_REFCNT it will 
gradually
-increase over time until it reaches _Py_IMMORTAL_INITIAL_REFCNT.
 */
 #define _Py_IMMORTAL_INITIAL_REFCNT (3ULL << 30)
 #define _Py_IMMORTAL_MINIMUM_REFCNT (1ULL << 31)
@@ -292,7 +288,7 @@ static inline Py_ALWAYS_INLINE void Py_INCREF(PyObject *op)
     }
 #elif SIZEOF_VOID_P > 4
     PY_UINT32_T cur_refcnt = op->ob_refcnt;
-    if (cur_refcnt >= _Py_IMMORTAL_INITIAL_REFCNT) {
+    if (((int32_t)cur_refcnt) < 0) {
         // the object is immortal
         _Py_INCREF_IMMORTAL_STAT_INC();
         return;
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py b/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py
index 6d0879ad65d53c..c9ab1c1de9e186 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 """
 
 from test import support
-from test.support import bigmemtest, _1G, _2G, _4G, import_helper
-_testcapi = import_helper.import_module('_testcapi')
+from test.support import bigmemtest, _1G, _2G, _4G
 
 import unittest
 import operator
@@ -1258,27 +1257,6 @@ def test_dict(self, size):
         d[size] = 1
 
 
-class ImmortalityTest(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    @bigmemtest(size=_2G, memuse=pointer_size * 9/8)
-    def test_stickiness(self, size):
-        """Check that immortality is "sticky", so that
-           once an object is immortal it remains so."""
-        if size < _2G:
-            # Not enough memory to cause immortality on overflow
-            return
-        o1 = o2 = o3 = o4 = o5 = o6 = o7 = o8 = object()
-        l = [o1] * (size-20)
-        self.assertFalse(_testcapi.is_immortal(o1))
-        for _ in range(30):
-            l.append(l[0])
-        self.assertTrue(_testcapi.is_immortal(o1))
-        del o2, o3, o4, o5, o6, o7, o8
-        self.assertTrue(_testcapi.is_immortal(o1))
-        del l
-        self.assertTrue(_testcapi.is_immortal(o1))
-
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     if len(sys.argv) > 1:
         support.set_memlimit(sys.argv[1])

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